Final Fantasy XIV’s Patch Future: 2.1, 2.2 and Beyond

A bunch of interviews happened last weekend at PAX with Producer/Director Naoki Yoshida and Sound Director Masayoshi Soken. Our friends over at GamerEscape and MMORPG.com happened to be included in those interviews, and came out of it with some awesome news about future content of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. Here’s what we know so far.

Patch 2.1

Good King Moogle Mog will returning as a boss fight. More than likely he will be accessible through the duty finder. Please look forward to it.

A new difficulty for Ifrit, Garuda, and Titan fights will be added in this patch as well. They haven’t quite decided if they’ll call them hard, super, ultra, extreme, or any other awesome intense name. I can see it now. “Ifrit, for real this time”.

Two hard level dungeons and the Crystal Tower, a 24-man raid dungeon, will be added.

Also new Hildibrand quests and FATEs are being added. If you didn’t know, Hildibrand was a comic relief NPC from version 1.0. He has his own… unique sense of humor.

The Wolves Den, a 4v4 and 8v8 arena will be opening in this patch. You can travel to it by boat from Lower La Noscea, and to enter the arena you must use the Duty Finder.

And lastly, Mists, the La Noscea player housing region will be unlocked in 2.1. Houses are available to Free Companies and individual players for a monetary value.

Patch 2.2

New Primal fights will be introduced. Yoshida stated that they will be “ones that new players haven’t even imagined.”

Either Leviathan, Shiva or Ramuh will be in 2.2. It has yet to be revealed which one, but they all seem like fun fights and fun stories to flesh out!

Gilgamesh might make an appearance as a boss fight in either 2.2 or 2.3.

It is possible that Free Companies will have the ability to summon their own Primal (FATE?) battles in this patch. No concrete details have been announced though. If not 2.2 then possibly 2.3.

And Beyond!

Patch 2.3 is the target release for the Golden Saucer! The reason they haven’t revealed much about it is because they are currently busy working on it. They are hoping to have at least 3 mini games available before they release it into the game. Yoshida says perhaps a card game, a mini game, or a snowboarding game. I’d love to snowboard down Coerthas with my Lalafell!

It has also been confirmed that the first draft of the first expansion has been submitted! Obviously there is a lot of work to be done, but at least they are planning for the future!

What do you guys want to see in the future as far as content patches and expansions go? Let us know in the comment section below.

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It might be overrated, whatever that means, but it was fun. If it’s fun in XIV, I’m in.

alex1984

Calm down with your crying

KiTA

Only if it’s DPS and can’t tank.

♚ dr. brawler ♞

what every happened to the lightning event? or are they going to wait til the release of lightning returns?

Orophen

We don’t know when the Lightning fate content will be released yet. As far as we know, it’s still in the works. Our guess is that the content will be released to coincide with the release of Lightning Returns, which won’t be out until the Q1 of 2014. We’ll keep you updated.

guy2

When is the hair shop coming out? also when is the 2.1 coming out?

Orophen

It’s been said by Yoshida that the ahir shop will come out in Patch 2.1. Unfortunately, no one knows yet when these patches will be released. When we find out, though, it will be on the site.

John Kiser

They are pushing for every 3 months for release so it should be here end of november give or take if all goes as planned

Mike Bogdan

I’d really like the ability to change your name, to go along with Fantasia. If I went to from a Lalafell to another race, I wouldn’t want to run around as a Miqote with the name Lalo Palo or something

Will

Agreed. I have a very elfish name but after I created my char my girlfriend decided to make a char and I’d like to switch my race as well as name to match her.

Ngarner

Pay for 1 month of service and you can.

Adam Autio

He can only change race not name.

Wiley Quixote

You forgot the biggest one- Crystal Tower is coming in 2.1, the 24-man raid dungeon.

Kumotaru

You’re right! Shame on me. I’ll add it in, thanks!

Orophen

We’ve corrected the article based on information that we already have. Thanks for the heads up.

Adessa

Oh man, I hope somebody important reads this. Could we se some jobs/classes that are magi-tech related in the future?!

James Lansdowne

I’d really like this. The fantasy setting is fine and the world is beautiful, but for over a decade now FF has made its name on the weird combination of fantasy and Sci-fi. I’m glad they at least have it in this one with the garleans, but it would be nice if it would filter over to the players more.
– engineer class?
– magitech flavored weapons and armor?
– Defeat the garlean empire in the main story (for the game as a whole) and have the capital of the empire become a city we can visit?

I think using that stuff to mess with the setting could really help set FFXIV apart.

Gobstopper

Triple Triad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

anon

TETRA MASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Painis Cupcake

BLITZBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thimble Fire (Moogle Server)

video gaem

Kyle Richter

Down for Blitzball. Love that game. Not sure it fits the setting, though.

Hirus

Anyone know if they’re just planning on the Limsa housing zone? I havent heard anything on the other 2 (grid/uldah).

Kumotaru

The other 2 will be added later.

micene

italian subtitles please because I believe that even Italians should enjoy a bit of history of the game

xtr

Or learn english…

Niels Torben Rode

Amen :3

Dr.Destino

It’s time for Italians (like me), to learn a little more english because we are really the shame of europe. -_- no comment

Chris

I remember reading in a few places that Yoshida said there would be a couple more classes added before the first expansion (specifically something about returning the Muskateer class). Any news on that?

ArkSavrin

I want SAM THF & BLU back. Seems BRD replaced RNG

InfernoCommander

try to milk some class/job info out of em. Great list here too.

Sascha Sander

I’d like to see the revival of Red Mage / Blue Mage

Machuu Rubedo Hill

why? Red mage is a mix of black/white mage…. so mix it and BOOOOOM!!! Red Mage, just not a official class but its still there.

HOWEVER blue mage yes please :3

frumpus

I like taking a white robe and dying it red and pretending to be a red mage

Veroni

Ohyesyes! Red Mage (i.e. a true supporter job) or Blue Mage would be awesome. I’d love to have “Bad Breath” as an ability (“Self Destruct” comes to mind, too :D).

Rhino Stormhorn

Vanity Slots!

Finalanon

dungeon/raids themes off previos ff games with respective iconic enemies and bosses. if ff13 can invade, why cant ff14 invade all the other worlds :)

XeroxCopycat

We MUST have Shantotto as a raid boss in XIV.

Kumotaru

I love the enthusiasm! =D some people have some really good ideas here. I know Square Enix is listening. We just have to be patient. (it’s difficult, i know!)

Shinny

Also, it’s Moggle Mog, not Moogle Mog. (If it sthe same ones, its also the XII’th, though since the last got killed in XIV, ARR may have the XIII’th

Carla Walker Burks

I’d like to see the jobs reworked a bit. It should be something special to get to be a white mage or whatever but it’s not a huge step in my opinion.

xaade

Job vs. class is a raid vs small-party/solo situation. That’s the written intent. So you switch to a job when you join a raid or party situation, and class is more effective for solo. Job is not supposed to be more powerful.

Carla Walker Burks

Oh and also storage chest or something in the houses. My conjurer is a junk collector.

Metalicana

there is already a place to live your items.You can create a helper that you can give him your items

Carla Walker Burks

Yes I do know about the retainer system. I am just so curious how much functionality the housing will have. If it’s like Everquest II which is gorgeous but not much you can’t interact with that much. Ultima Online had it where you could interact with so much. Open chests, store in chests, paint walls & items, floors, move floors. Lay on the beds, sit on the chairs to name a few more. It was really cool all you could do. Oh and off subject the ability to mark a spot in your little book so you could come back to it after a bank run. Oh well maybe too much to ask.

frumpus

Well you can already sit on chairs so I would suspect they will make as much furniture interactive as possible.

There will be storage in houses. Yoshida previewed this in a live letter.

John Wade

They should use the same card game from XI & IX

Veroni

Triple Triad from FF VIII, please. That was a great trading card game, too. Didn’t like the game mechanic of Tetra Master (FF IX) much.

mad mardagin

bring back the plant growing from 11 mog house

J.H

Barbershop please :) The hairstyles were very limited for pretty much every race.

FFan

Please a card game similar to FF8 it has the best card system. And make it so you can play other people with rules like taking one flipped card!

Guest

Triple Triad would be amazing.

Kumotaru

Hey guys!

Just reading through the comments on here and Reddit to answer any questions.
-No word on Theif, sorry =/
-Two hard level dungeons and the Crystal Tower, a 24-man raid dungeon, will be added (article was updated.)
-no mention of vanity/cosmetic slots
-Housing for the other two areas are in development.
-I see a lot of comments about Triple Triad. I wish I could say I knew what they are planning.

Also don’t worry about players running out of content at level cap. Currently there is a weekly cap on how many tokens you can earn to AF2 gear. So that will hold everyone back a bit. A lot of people can’t even clear Garuda and Titan hard modes, so there is that. And very few Free Companies are on Coil of Bahamut. So don’t worry about burn outs! :D

If I see anything else I can answer I’ll try to do so. Thanks for the support!

Veroni

No mention of Chocobo breeding? O.o

Kumotaru

In letter from the producer live #5 (waaaay back in February)

Q22: Please tell us more about chocobo raising!
A22: We’ll first be releasing housing, but you’ll be able to set up a chocobo stable and purchase a baby chocobo to raise. Once you have a chocobo stable you will also be able to do things like breed chocobos and train them.

J-rel Vaughn

Gunblader as a class plz!!! :)

J-rel Vaughn

GUNBLADER AS A CLASS!!!!!

zanmaru

All of my downvote.

Silverflameshe

DRK!!!!!!!!

Axel Strider

reset on characters stat points would be nice at a fair price of course

frumpus

you can already get that from your grand company for 10k seals

Loki Vest

How about under water fights like in ffx that was an awesome and fun boss kinda wish it would finnaly be a thing by ffxiv sincr there’s so much water areas .

Ellivan

I would like in-game marriage to be a thing.

Suriden

Blitzball!!

Rob_Harkness

Boss Fights like Ruby-, Emerald-, Ultima-, Omega-Weapon, can i have it? :)

Sparky

What about new jobs >_< We need ninja, a duel wield, and a greatsword job. Y_Y

There was an Assassin/Archer I had on a tactics title, so the implementation of the former would reciprocate with gratitude unbound as one could sustain. Thief as a class would be grand as well.

Iroh Sozin

More minigames to spend time in your house… like chezz Final Fantasy I, II, III or something like that, i mean, would be nice to have a TV with a console in you house in FFXIV where you would be able to play another FF oldies for free.. well… “free”

lexxyann

In the meantime give us WORLD TRANSFER!! Been waiting all of September!

Ironcross

Dark Knight {YES PLEASE} :)

Adam Taylor

Bring back Corsair! I loved that job in FFXI. It would be interesting to see how well they would work in FFXIV.

Richard Lawrence

/clap

I have only been playing a week (Lv. 31 Arcanist), and am loving this game, I can’t wait for the update 2.1.

But I hope I can Max out my Arcanist to level 50 by the time it’s released.

aisten

Blitzball!

Kumotaru

/shudder

Bobby

Beastmaster job please

Rolling Thunder

I would definitely love to see THF come into play again… as someone had mentioned before, however i would not like for it to be a class… i prefer it as its proper place a job…… to unlock THF you would have to lvl Bandit BND for the abbriviation.
it would be like Level 30 Bandit / Level 15 Pugilist to unlock Thief :D brilliant idea

Jet Lee

game like blackjack and chess and some other mini games. I can imagine me playing a board game with my brother, while we sit at a table at my house. Also maybe we can have some system where we can draw up maps and battle strategies. So before you get into a battle, we can draw up some plans to battle the boss before we go into a fight. A mic will also be nice to have, I understand yoshida, said he will have to find away to mask voices so it doesn’t sound like you etc. Ya know some guys will talk to girls/minors and say omg let me see some pics? and all that other crap. However if you have some system in place, that maybe we can send our friends direct voice chats, this way you would have to be in a party or you are a friend and only then you can accept or deny the invite. Yoshida also stated this is for hardcore players, and I would have to say not 100% true, communication is key to fighting big bosses, and it’s hard to type and fight at the same time. I can tell you that I was having a hard time fighting ifrit, if only I had a mic, I could tell them to hit the flaming spike that comes down and we wouldn’t be wiped out so easily. And now we’re talking about coil of bahamut and all these hard places, it will be very hard to talk to 24 or strategize with 24 players!!. The housing system is good, I do hope they allow us more options in the future to make our houses however we want, besides having only 5 types to choose from. Their our a few houses I will like to have maybe something similar, to tony starks house, very modern but also have that Eorzea feel to it.

Vermillion

What about the balancing of the classes. details please.

Blue

Blue Mage

Shonce

I would love to see a chocobo breeding/racing system similar to ff7 except much more would be possible here. Each server could begin constructing their own server chocobo racing track, using disciples of the land skills and materials, and other stuff through special daily quests, and it would be unlocked gradually over several phases while the server as a whole combines their time and work to finish it. At the same time, a chocobo breeding farm would be implemented so that players can being breeding and training their chocobos for racing. Once all of this is in place, players can take their chocobos to the track to enter races for rewards such as gil, gear, and chocobo customization. If you want to take it a step further, we could also implement a chocobo betting system where players can wager on their favorite chocobo.

Zante Simbei

It may not be exactly as you had it planned, but a chocobo raising/breeding system is confirmed to be in the works. The basic idea is that players will be able to add on a stables of sorts to the player housing, and raise their own chocobos there.

MostUnclean

I used to fight Gilgamesh and have my own housing, until I took an arrow in the knee.

Terry Bogard

I have much of this new 2.1 patch but notice that nothing about what the downsides may be was posted. Like gear restriction to dungeons and possible voting out of players during a dungeon raid. (basically you could fight for some serious end game loot and then through no fault of you own you get booted and the majority group steals your gear by default.) That and the way game will be set up you will need to do lev 50 gathering and crafting first just to get gear to enter a dungeon. The cross skills will be made worthless as people only do jobs. If you do not have a job equipped you get shunned and then booted. Also biggest worry is voting for gear. (Really what idiot who ever put politics into a game had the worst idea ever as politics do not work in real life nor in games.) No offense but if I can’t understand what good any of this will do. Okay so some diehards get to have the game of their dreams but for a mmo to work its the basics of attracting new player to the environment that makes a game successful not making it so only the elite can have their say. I hope they fix this and can see what they are doing isn’t helping only hurting. In the beginning the 25 man raid was zenith of awesomeness and everyone was happy. In the end the 10 man squads and gear rating proved to be the beginning of drama we since have not recovered from ever.

Yelta Sumasu

True, there are a couple potential downsides depending on how the systems are actually implemented. However I believe the pros far outweigh the cons.

Dungeon iLvl restrictions – This system will merely keep people out of instances they are not geared for therefore eliminating frustration for the entire party. I believe it will be an average score of the current gear set so one or two slightly underleveled pieces of equipment shouldn’t prevent someone from attempting a run as long as the average is high enough. It is my hope that they will make the restrictions fairly lenient and there will be no restriction whatsoever for a premade party so doing fun things like an all bathing suit Ifrit is still possible.

The way the game is set up showers the player in equipment upgrades from Guildleves, side quests, class quests and storyline quests. Equip what you receive and sell what you cannot or choose the Allagan Pieces. Starting at the 15 dungeon and up the player should be collecting the gear from dungeons to supplement the gear received from questing and then filling in any deficiencies by either repeating Leves and dungeons or visiting your local market and purchasing an upgrade. Once you join a GC yet another option for gearing up quickly and easily becomes available. Once you are 50 gearing up becomes even easier where in addition to dungeon drops just completing the content rewards you in Tomestones that you trade in for gear. All that is available before you ever even have to think about gathering or crafting for yourself or even asking friends who might craft something for you.

There is no reason anyone who puts in a little time and effort shouldn’t be able to gear up to satisfy the dungeon iLvl restrictions.

Dungeon party kick – While it is possible this may be abused depending on how it is implemented there needs to be a way to remove AFK, disconnected or virulent party members without punishing the other players contributing to the run. I don’t think the majority of players are going to kick someone for AK or WP gear. Most of us just want a smooth run to collect our Tomestones and already have better gear and all the drops in the 2 level 50 DF dungeons or. The only ‘serious end game loot’ that currently exists ingame is not accessible via DF anyway and is generally run by premade static or shout groups. SE should however beef up their GM services so complaints over unfair kicks can be responded to quickly and fairly.

Sure there might be some jerks who form 3 out of 4 and queue up and troll the system but currently we have situations where 1 jerk out of 8 is costing an entire run to fail. I’m sure if and when it gets abused SE will modify it until it is as fair as possible.

I assume that by ‘voting for gear’ you are referring to the MVP system? Since we don’t know exactly what this system entails we can only guess for now. As I understand it this cannot be abused in any way that I can think of. You can only vote for a MVP in total DF pugs. No part of the party can be premade so it is all strangers. At the end of the run you vote and the winner gets a prize. I highly doubt that this prize is going to be used to unlock ‘zomg epic loot’ so I don’t even know why anyone would try to rig the system. I already help out and I think it is nice that I have the possibility to be rewarded in a small way for my coaching a group through content.

As for running things on classes instead of jobs I would consider it the norm for players to be on a job in a 50 run so I would suggest you build your own ‘class’ party as it significantly deviates from the norm. It’s like my Ifrit bathing suit fight. I would never queue up 6/8 in my bikini and then be surprised when the 2 DF pugs get mad.

If you have your own special ways you want to play the game you build your own parties. You need to play with players whose style fits your own. Surrounding yourself with good people who you enjoy playing with will vastly improve your game experience as well as limit your exposure to these potential downsides you are concerned about.

Kevin

geomancer

Squall

I would like to see higher levels or more expansions on the current classes.

Pharoahsim

Just a basic jeez… That can’t be sooo difficult, can it?!

Firekitty

Yeah, it drives me nuts that I have to sort things manually…Once you start crafting, you accumulate so much stuff it takes ages.

joe

Any news on frontlines?

Yelta Sumasu

Not that I know of. Only thing I know about it is Its supposedly larger scale than Wolve’s Den. I think they mentioned something about an openworld zone but I don’t know if that was for this or some other future PvP event.

Punker

Medevail golden saucer wow.

SEPHIROTH

plz be ffviii style card game

Alexander Foulk

Naval battles with the empire. Blockade missions on the zones they populate. Naval pvp that starts as ship to shop then hand to hand with a chance to have a fate spawn in the middle of the fight so it becomes pve but then you have to continue pvp for the epic loot. Naval mission to explore islands for resources. Guild ships! Doesn’t necessarily have to be naval since airships are used just as much

Jonathan

How about a working payment system that doesn’t throw errors when trying to pay…